{"id":4209,"date":"2012-08-11T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2014-10-14T06:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:17:01","slug":"the-wrong-collared-dove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/the-wrong-collared-dove\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Collared Dove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8288\/7760807418_63d80ffb8a_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turn around. Now. I want to look at that dove.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This <em>Streptopelia<\/em> pigeon was the source of a few moments&#8217; excitement this morning in Somerset County. Eurasian Collared-Dove is still a rarity in New Jersey, and I don&#8217;t think it has been recorded yet so far north and inland.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this bird&#8217;s small size, pinkish tinge, and plain wing, without the contrasting dark primaries of Eurasian, identified it quickly and handily as an <strong>African Collared-Dove<\/strong>, the beloved prop of stage magicians and the often ill-caged pet of careless door shutters.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well. It won&#8217;t be long before the &#8220;right&#8221; collared-dove gets here too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8426\/7760989688_c2064b308b_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Turn around. Now. I want to look at that dove.&#8221; This Streptopelia pigeon was the source of a few moments&#8217; excitement this morning in Somerset County. Eurasian Collared-Dove is still a rarity in New Jersey, and I don&#8217;t think it has been recorded yet so far north and inland. Unfortunately, this bird&#8217;s small size, pinkish &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/the-wrong-collared-dove\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wrong Collared Dove&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1,52,64,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}